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Chicago Mayor Lori E. Lightfoot holds the Sandra J. Otaka Trailblazer Award she was awarded Tuesday evening at the St. Jane Hotel during the annual Asian American Bar Association installation and award dinner. Standing to Lightfoot’s right is Jane Funk, an attorney at Xact Data Discovery and AABA board member, with new bar association President Gary Zhao with SmithAmundsen LLC on the mayor’s left. – Bill Richert

Asian bar leader Zhao aims to raise profile

A recent study, “A Portrait of Asian Americans in the Law,” revealed Asian Americans make up nearly 5% of lawyers in the country but remain woefully underrepresented in leadership positions throughout the profession.
By Sarah Mansur
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High court highlights: The September docket

The state’s top court comes back for its September session next week to hear 19 cases after taking a four-month break.
By Adrianna Pitrelli
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Amtrak derailment victims awarded $17M

A team of attorneys at Clifford Law Offices obtained a nearly $17 million verdict Friday on behalf of victims injured in a 2017 Amtrak derailment in Washington state.
By Jordyn Reiland

Trial Notebook

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Bid to ship case to new court fails

Trying to avoid the one-year deadline for removing a case to federal court based on diversity of citizenship, James Toomsen and Michael Wiarda relied on the exception for cases where the plaintiff “acted in bad faith in order to prevent a defendant from removing the action.”
By Steven P. Garmisa

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Cozen O’Connor Public Strategies lobbyists Patrick L. Carey (left), Darren Collier (center) and John F. Dunn (right) pose together at Cozen O’Connor’s office earlier this month. The law firm’s government relations subsidiary added the three professionals who each previously worked with Cozen colleague Patrick G. Martin during his time with McGuireWoods Consulting.
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Cozen O'Connor adds three lobbyists in Chicago
Chicago Mayor Lori E. Lightfoot holds the Sandra J. Otaka Trailblazer Award she was awarded Tuesday evening at the St. Jane Hotel during the annual Asian American Bar Association installation and award dinner. Standing to Lightfoot’s right is Jane Funk, an attorney at Xact Data Discovery and AABA board member, with new bar association President Gary Zhao with SmithAmundsen LLC on the mayor’s left.
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Asian bar leader Zhao aims to raise profile
Maywood Park shown in 2008. A federal judge last week denied a motion to dismiss eight counts in a lawsuit filed by the trustee of the Balmoral Racing Club Inc. and Maywood Park Trotting Association Inc. The trustee alleges the tracks’ directors made millions of dollars in unlawful payments to themselves and other individuals before the bankruptcy filing in 2014.
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Judge OKs suit against defunct racetracks’ directors
On Dec. 18, 2017, Amtrak's first paid passenger run on a new route from Tacoma, Wash., to Portland, Ore., derailed onto Interstate 5 near DuPont, Wash., killing three people and injuring more than 60 others. On Friday, a jury in Tacoma federal court awarded nearly $17 million to three plaintiffs in a damages trial stemming from the incident.
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Amtrak derailment victims awarded $17M
Chief Cook County Circuit Judge Timothy C. Evans speaks with reporters in a Daley Center hallway after he was voted into a record seventh term in office.
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Evans wins seventh term as chief judge